Cigar-banding machine



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UNITED STATES 1dig tal l PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE Gr. MCGIRR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY AS- SIGNMENTS, TO PAVO MACHINE G0. INC, A. CORPORATION 6F NEW YORK.

CIGAR-BANDING MACHINE.

Application filed June 20, 1922.

To all Hf/LONE it may ooncern.

Be it known that I, THEODORE (it. MoGmn,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-l3anding Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein. to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a machine for banding cigars, and more particularly for placing ornamental name bands on box cigars, although it may also be used for handing bundle or loose cigars. A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and is hereinafter described, although it will. be understood that the invention is not to be considered as being limited to the particular constructions shown and described, and that the several features of the invention set forth in the claims forming part of this specification may be varied widely, within the province of mechanical skill, without dei arting from the essence of the invention covered by said. claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is an end View of a machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a front side view of the same looking from the right of Fig. 1. 3 is a section. on line 3-3, and Fig. 41 a section on line ili, Fig. 1, looking in the direction denoted by the arrows adjacent said lines. Fig. 5 is a plan view of theimproved machine. Fig. 6 is a detail plan view of the gearing shown. in Figs. 1 and 5. Figs. 7 8, 9 and 10 are fragmentary views of a cigar holder and band nipper and operating parts for the same. Fig. 11 is a detail perspective view of a movable jaw of a cigar holder. Fig. 12 is a detail perspective view of a band nipper. Figs. 13 and 14 are detail views of the heated drier and cooperating parts. F 1.5. 16 and 17 are detail views showing the band feeding mechanism, Fig. 16 being a section on line 16-46. Fig. 15. Fig. 18 is a detail plan view of the cigar fingers and tilting carrying arms, together with some connected parts. Figs. 19 and 20 are detail views of the cigar feeding mechanism, Fig. 19 being a side view and Fig. 20 a broken out plan view. Fi 21 is a detail plan view of a tired plate controlling the pawl from which the intermittently travelling feeding Serial No. 569,687.

belts are operated. Figs. 22 and 23 are detail views of the moistening mechanism. Figs. 24, 25 and 26 are detail views of the ejecting or discharging mechanism. Figs. 27 and 28 are detail views illustrating the means by which the cigars are presented to a cigar holder on the cigar carrier. Figs. 29 to 34, inclusive, are detail views illustrating the operation of wrapping a band around a cigar and finally sealing the same, the operations illustrated in these views following the operations indicated in Figs. 27 and 28 F ig. 35 is a detail view showing the band folder and its operating mechanism.

Figs. 36 and 37 are detail views showing the operating mechanism of the heated drier and the tucker plate.

Referring to the drawings, 12 denotes the frame of the machine at one side of which is mounted a power-driven sha it 13 carrying a worm 1 lengaging a worm-wheel 15 having a clutch connection with a driving shaft 16 carrying a gear wheel 17 meshing with a similar gear wheel 18 on a shaft 19, said gear wheel 18 meshing with a similar gear wheel. 20 on a shaft 21.; all of the moving parts of the machine, being operated from the shafts 16, 19 and 21, as will hereinafter appear.

The shaft 21 is provided with an arm 22 carrying a pin .23 arranged to enter slots 241- of a wheel 25 mounted on a shaft 26 to im part an intermittent rotary movement to said shaft, this operating means for said shaft being the well-known Geneva mechanical movement. Fixed to the shaft 26, outside of the frame of the machine, is a carrier wheel 27 having a circular series of holders which receive the cigars and maintain them in proper positions while the bands are being applied thereto. To this end each cigar holder comprises a fixed rectangular aw 28 with which cooperates a movable jaw afforded by the outer end 29 of a bell-crank lever 29 fulcrumed on a pin 30 on the wheel 27, the inner end of the said bell-crank lever being connected by coil spring 31 with a pin 32, said spring serving to urge the outer end of the said bell-crank lever, affording the movable jaw, yieldingly towards the said fixed jaw-28 of the cigar holder. (Sec 27.) The bell-crank lever 29 is of double form, as shown more clearly in the detail view Fig. 11, and the inner member of said lever carries a roller 33 resting against the periphery of a cam disk 34 fixed to a hub 35 loosely mounted on the shaft 26. (See Fig. 7.)

Pivotally mounted on the pin 30 is a lever 36 the outer end of which, in co-operation with the outer part 529 of the bell-crank lever 2-9, affords a nipper for engaging and holding the ends of cigar bands, as will presently appear. The outer end of the in per lever 36 is yieldingly pressed. towards the outer end of said bell-crank lever by a coil spring 37 connecting the inner arm of said nipper lever with a pin 38 on the wheel 27, so as normally to press the outer end of said nipper lever towards the outer end of the bell-crank lever 29. The lever 36 is formed double, as shown more clearly in Fig. 12 and the inner member of said lever carries a roller 39 resting against the periphery of a cam disk 40 formed integral with or secured to the cam disk 34. (See Fig. 7 The levers 29 and 36 are operated at proper times to open and close the cigar holder afforded by the fixed and movable jaws 28 and 29 as alsoto open and close the nipper' afforded by the jaw 29 and the outer end of the lever 36, by rocking movements imparted to the hub 85. To this end the hub is provided with an arm 35 to which is jointed a yoke 62 carrying a cam pin or roll 63 entering a cam groove 64 in a cam wheel 65 fixed to the driving shaft 16.

The bands to be applied to the cigars are held in a suitable magazine 41 having a partly open bottom the bands being lightly supported at one end by a small projection or finger 12 at one end of the discharge opening in the bottom of the magazine. Mounted at the lower part of said magazine is a rock-shaft 43 carrying a recessed arm a l which is provided with a perforated suction plate 15 overlying the recess or cavity in the said arm 44, the said recess or cavity opening into a suction duct 46 connected with a suction air pump 47 by a flexible pipe or hose 46 The piston rod 18 of the said suction pump is jointed to the lower end of a link 49 which is, in turn, jointed at its upper end to a lever 50 fulcrumed on the shaft 19 and carrying a pin or roller 51 engaging the periphery of a cam 52 fixed to the driving shaft 16. The rock-shaft 4-3 c 'ries a gear 54 engaged by a rack at the upper part of a bar 56 jointed at its lower end to a lever 57 fulcrumed on the shaft 16 and carrying a cam roll 58 entering a cam groove in a cam disk 59 on the shaft 19. The duct 46 communicates with a pipe 60 carried by the arm 44 on the-rock-shaft t3 and to which pipe the hose or flexible pipe 46 running to the air pump 47, is attached.

The bands which are to be fed from the magazine 41 will, in practice preferably be guinmed at one end and will be withdrawn from said magazine by the suction arm 44-. To this end the shaft 21 is provided with a gear wheel 66 meshing with a pinion 67 fixed to a short shaft 68 carrying a disk 69 dipping into a water tank 70. Normally running in contact with the disk 69 is a moistening wheel 71 carried by an arm 7:2 mounted on a shaft- 73 longitudinally slidable in bearings in the frame 12. The shaft 73 is provided with a fixed arm 74 connected by a link 75 with a lever 76 pivoted at its lower end to a. bracket 77 and carrying a cam roll 78 entering a cam groove 79 in a cam cylinder 80 attached to the shaft 19. The arm 7 2 is held against endwise movement on the shaft 73 but is intended to have a slight rocking movement on said shaft. by virtue of a torsional spring 81 cooperating with a stationary lug or cam 82 on the machine frame. Thus as the reciprocating moisten ing roll 71 is carried over the gummed end of a band it will be held out of contact with said band by said stationary cam until itarrives at a point over the middle of the band when itwill be forced momentarily against the band under the influence of the spring 81, thus moistening the middle part of the gummed end thereof, the moisture spreading over the said gummed end of the band when the said gummed end is folded down by the means to be presently described. Thus by applying the moisture only to one limited spot. so as to moisten the gum only sufficient to ensure a proper adherence. the moistened part will dry quickly in sticking down the gummed end of the band. The gummed part of the band to be moistened lies over a jaw 29 and to prevent moisture which might pass through the bands from moistening the outer face of the jaw, and thus tend to cause adherence of the succeeding ,band thereto, the laws 29 are each preferably provided at their outer faces with a groove 29 (Fig, 11) which will be beneath the parts of the bands touched by the moistening wheel.

It is obvious that the mechanism just described might be utilized for applying an adhesi e toungu'muied hands, if desired, by filling the tanl: 70 with liquid adhesive instead of water.

In the operation of the machine a band is withdrawn from the bottom of the magazine 41 by the suction arm 44, and the end of the band is inserted between the parts of the nipper afforded by the jaw 29 of a bellcrank lever 29 and the jaw at the outer endof a lever 36, as hereinbefore mentioned, the nipper being then closed by the action of a spring 37 acting on said lever, thus laying the band across the top of a stationary cigar-holding aw 28 and a movable aw 29 in readiness for the reception of a cigar to be inserted in a cigar holder.

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The cigars to he handed areplaced on table from which they may he manually for oi ierating said helts comprises a sprocket- Wile-Ell 85 lined to the shaft it connected by a chain 86 with w sprocl; wheel 8? loosely mounted on shalt c8 Rigid with the sprocket-wheel 87 is a disk 82 to which is pivoted pv wl 89 arranged. to engage, at intervals, a rate" 90 dated to said sha'lt 88, said pawl hein hel out of engagement with said ratchet whee during the greater part of a revolution 0: the dislr 82 hy fixed plate 91, hut heing permitted, by a flattened periiersl portion oi said plate, to engage Sill ratchet-- wheel only during a tew degrees of revoluof. said dish 91 and the sprocket-wheel i ith which said dislr is rigidly c ,ected thus imparting an intermittent rotary move ment to said shaft 88.

Fixed to the shaft 88 is a gear wheel meshing; with a similar gear wheel on shaft 94;. Mounted on the shafts 88 and 9a!- are pulleys 95 around which and suitably mounted idler pulleys 96 the interinittinetl gi inori' feeding belts 83 rum lower reach of the upper feeding helt pressed yieldingly downward by a weighted roller 97 carried by a pivoted arm 95. Proper tension is given to the lower teedhelt 84% by a belt tightening); roller 99 carried by an arm 1G0 pivoted on the 9 roller being: pressed yielding I ward by a spring 101 connected with a pin 1023 carried by the hub of the arm 100.

The cigars fed forward by the intermittingly travelling belts: 83 and 84: moved beneath yielding plates 10% at the forward part oi a frame 104. nivotally mounted at its rear end on the shaft 88, said can. 1me" bracket 105 from which a h ed pin 106 extends upward tin-o1 a oraclret 10? attached to a housing W8. Us the threaded pin 306 is a thumh not 109 which may he turned to vary the h ight of he trainee 1.0 .2 to accommodate cigars ot diii ei'ent sites. The cigars when liieneath the nlatcs lOll rest on fingers ltd, said tin tiers, which. are spaced apart, being connected so as to move together and are rigrid with arms ill one of; which. carries a roll Tl a 'ainst which a sprin held aricn 11.8 re d hr-n the tin x are forced downlit) fixed to a rock- .i in the machine trams. itch-ruined on the carrier she/it is lever 1.1M g rovidi'id with a Cit-T11 roll 1122 entering a cam groove in a cam-wheel IilIU-Jfl to the shalt 921. The lever 121i connected by a link i with an arm 125 secured to the she 120, and, by the oneration oi? the L parts 3' scribed, a rocking movement will he llflpfhoGCi to said shaft 1'20 as will he understood, to reciprocate the plunger H5 at proper intervals l airs to he handed are first tightly 1 the home while damp anl uni-e an approximately square or M when left in the hoites overnight or for a l. 3 time. In thus the cigars in 7 L0 the top layer of each box is termed m selected ciars and it desirable that one side of the feeding helts and 8d. means of a flat pusher the bottom layer 0t cigars in the open-bottomed receptacle (which loosely holds he contents of the i'iffll th cigars in the order in which *e packed) is shoved from the re ceptacle to a position in line with the said teec'n loelts and then the entire layer is pushed forward manually between said belts which are of proper length to receir'e such layer. When a layer of cigars is thus pushed in manually betwe n the feeding; helts tlv layer fills the space between the stop 200 and r ends of the helts and this entire layer will he natically fed forward by i: said belts, which travel in unison, without i. the e are or rolling" them oven l i hen the e handed tiey are to he renacired in J arm as the lower layers handed the top layer ct selected El conic .iast and will thus assume orig all position in the top of the bOX, s desirable.

present ma ine is so constructed cc ral or name portion of as d will come uppermost when the hand plied in a holder,

to a cl ar placed and n'ioyalile jaws 28 and 1 will he given a quarter turn, or oi of rier wheel 27, .n to the discharging posi- F'O oi? more trons teed tion of said carrier wheel when the latter is intermittingly rotated in the direction denoted by the arrow in Fig. 1, it is necessary, in order that the name portion of the bands should be uppermost when the cigars are discharged from the rotating carrier onto the receiving table .2 that, before a cigar is placed in the carrier, it should be given a quarter turn in a direction opposite the quarter turn it will get when in the carrier wheel.

To this end a tilting carrying device, having a reciprocating movement of is provided. This tilting device, in the form herein shown, comprises two notched arms 125 fixed to a rockshaft 126, the receiving notches in said arms being directly beneath the vertically reciprocating plunger so that when said plunger descends a cigar resting on the fingers 110 will be forced down with said fingers into the notched or receiving portions of the arms and will be removably or frictionally held in said arms by the springs 127 mounted on said arms. The shaft 126 is journalled in fixed bearings supported by the frame of the machine and is provided at its inner end with a mutilated sector-gear 128 meshing with a mutilated sector gear 129 loosely mounted on the shaft 120, and operated as will presently be described, so that a quarter turn movement will be imparted to the tilter arms 125 at the proper intervals. (See Fig. 3.

The tilter or tilting carrier arms 125, in their turning movements from the position shown by full lines to the position denoted by dotted lines in Fig. 19 will carry a cigar downward so as to locate it in register with a holder comprising the jaws 28 and 29 and across which jaws a band has been placed, as hereinbefore described, and the cigar will then be forced forward into said holder, pushing the band inward in the holder and partly around the cigar, by a horizontally reciprocating feeder or pusher working beneath said tilting carrier and comprising spring arms 130 and 131 and a pushing member 132, these parts being all connected with and operated by a rack-bar 133, the teeth of which mesh with a sector gear 134 mounted on a rock-shaft 135 and having a short arm 136 connected by a link 137 to the lower end of a lever 138 fulcrumed on the shaft 21 and having a cam roll 139 entering a groove in a cam wheel 140 on the shaft 19. The rock-shaft 135 is also provided with an arm 141 connected by a link 142 with the sector gear 129 from which the tilting carrier arms 125 are operated.

hen a holder carried by the intermittingly rotating carrier wheel 27 arrives at a station just previous to the station where the cigar is to be placed in a holder, as just described, the moistening wheel 71 moves outward and moistens the gummed portion of a hand held by the nippers 29 and 36, as hereinbefore described, returning thereafter to its inner position in engagement with the moistening disk 69.

When a cigar has been placed in a holder, as above described, with the band partly around it, and with the gumnied portion of the band properly moistened, but with the ends of the band (meanwhile released from the nipper jaws 29 and 36) eX- tending outward from the holder, the upper end of the band will be pushed down by the descending and inwardly moving folder 143, and the same end is then pushed inward beneath the cigar by the horizontally reciprocating tucker plate 144; and then, in the further rotation of the carrier wheel, the lower end of the band will be pressed inward over the tuckedin moistened gummed portion thereof by the curved and yielding presser plate 145 along which the cigar is moved, with the band in contact therewith, thus fully closing the band around the cigar.

The folder 143 is fixed to a holder 146 pivotally mounted on a pin 147 carried by a lever 148 fulcrumed on the shaft 26, said lever being jointed to the upper end of a yoke 149 carrying a cam pin or roll 150 engaging a cam groove in a cam wheel 151 on the second cam shaft 19. The holder 146 is provided with an arm 152 having an inclined end 152 contacting with the upper end of the yoke 149, said arm 152 being held upwardly in contact' with an adjustable stop 153 by a coil spring 154, so that as the holder 146 moves downward with the lever 1.48 the said holder will be given a slight turning movement, causing an inward movement to be imparted to the said folder 143 as it moves forward. See Fig. 35.

The tucker plate 144 is carried by an arm 155 fixed to a rock-shaft 155 mounted on a suitable support 155*, said rock-shaft having a second arm 155 fixed thereto and carrying a roller 155 yieldingly held, by a spring 155, in contact with the periphery of the cam wheel 151 carried by the second shaft 19 and having a peripheral cam projection 151 to engage said roller 155 to operate said tucker plate at the proper intervals. (See Figs. 13 and 36.) The arm 155 is provided with a pin 155 to which said spring 155 is attached, the other end of said spring being connected to any suitable fixed part of the machine.

A band wrapped around a cigar as just described is, at the station of the carrier wheel next below that at which the cigar was inserted in said wheel, subjected to the action of a preferably electrically heated drier which is yieldingly pressed against the hand during a pause in the rotation of the carrier wheel 27. This drier will preferably consist of a coil of resistance wire 159 arranged to heat a plate 159 attached to a lever 160 pivoted on the rock-shaft 155 and provided with a roller stud 161 held in yielding contact with a cam 162 on the second cam shaft 19, said cam being of proper form to move the drier outward away from the intcrmittingly rotating carrier wheel when. the latter is moving, but permitting said drier to he drawn into contact with the hands during the intervals when the said carrier wheel is at rest by means of a spring 160* one end of which is connected to a pin 160 on a lever 160 and the other end of which is secured to the frame. The inner portion of the cam 162 affords sufficient pauses or dwells to the heated drier, when the same in contact with the hands, to enable said drier to properly seal the gunnned hands. (See Figs. 36, 13 and 1 1.)

l Vhcn in the rotation of the carrier wheel 27 a handed cigar arrives at the station. next beyond that at which the drier is located, the holder in which the cigar is held is opened, to release the cigar, by the cam 34 acting on a bell-cranlr holding lever 29, and such released handed. cigar will he moved out onto the table e by an ejector or discharging device comprising two parallel arms 163 tired to shaft 163* journalled in a reciprocating carriage 16 1 to which is jointed one end of a linlr 164 connected at its other end to the upper end of an arm 1653 on a roclrshaft 166, said shaft having a second arm 167 to which is jointed the lower end of a yolre 168 carrying a roller 166 engaging a cam 170 on the driving or first cam shaft 16. The arms 163 are provided with hooks 171 to engage the cigars nd carry them out beneath plate springs 2 pressing lightly thereon to keep them turning. so that the name portions of nds will remain uppermost, for convenient proper packing of the handed cigars in the hoses. (lo-operating with the springs 172., in holding the cigars from turning, are plate springs 173 on the hoolred arms 163.

. he hooked ejecting or discharging arms,

1' cy reciprocate haclr and forth, are given and falling movements by means of a dingly mounted lever 174i. having an inelined portion 175 up which runs a roller 176 on the inner arm 163, said lever being normally held against stops 176 by a spring 177 which will yield when the hooked arms are moving hacltward and when the incline 175 is engaged. by the roller 176 and said roller is running up the incline 175 to lift the hooked arms 163. The lever 174i is pivoted at its lower end to a bracket 177 integral with which are formed tracl: members 178 and 179 the forward ends of said track incmhers affording the steps 17 6": The top portion of the lever 17-1, when said lever is in contact with the stops afforded by the track members 178 and 179, forms an extension of the upper track member 17 8 to hold the hooked arms 163 up when said arms are moving forward to discharge a cigar from the carrier wheel 27 onto the discharge table 2. When in the forward movement of the carriage 16 1 the roller 176 reaches the forward end of the upper track memher 178 the said arms will fall by gravity so that the roller 176 will now rest on the lower track member 17 9 over which it will travel in its backward movement until it reaches the incline 175 when it will push the lever 174 backward against the stress of the spring 177 and will ride up said incline and lift the hooked arms 163 for their next operation in discharging a cigar. When the carriage 16 1 next starts forward the lever 174: will also move forward, due to the stress of the spring 177, assisted slightly by the traction of the roller 176 on the upper track portion of the lever 174:, time again completing the upper track. From this it will he understood that a properly timed four-motioned movement will he imparted to the hooked arms 163 in discharging the banded cigars from the carrier wheel 27 onto the receiving-table e.

The operation of the machine, which will he generally understood from the foregoing. is as follows: A box layer of cigars, placed on the table as in front of the feeding belts 83 and 8 1 will, While the machine is at rest, be manually shoved forward by the attend ant between said belts with the foremost ci gar against the stop 200. The machine be ing now started by throwing in the clutch on the driving shaft 16, to connect said shaft with the power shaft 13, the suction arn'i 4L4: withdraws a gummed hand from the bottom of the magazine 41 and presents it to the jaws 29a and 3 1 of the hand nipper on the intermittingly rotating carrier wheel 27, and as the said wheel is moved forward in the direction denoted by the arrow in Fig. 1 the nipper jaws, which have closed to nip the end of the band, will draw the said hand from the bottom of the magazine and lay it over a cigar holder consisting of a movable jaw 29a and a fixed jaw 28. At this for- Ward movement of the carrier wheel the band thus laid over the holder arrives at what may be termed the second station, and the moistener wheel then moves outward over and applies water to the gummed end of the hand still held by the band nippcr; and the next forward movement of the carrier wheel brings the holder with the moistened hand lying across the same to the third station where a cigar is to be inserted in the holder. A cigar resting on the supporting fingers 110 at the forward ends of the feeding belts is, by the downward movement of the plunger 115, forced into the re ceiving recesses of the tilting carriers 125,

this downward movement of said plunger also forcing the yielding fingers 110 down; and the roller 112, carried by the arm 111 moving with said fingers, now rides up onto the upper end of the spring-held arm 113 and against the stop 11% to hold the said fingers in its lowered position until the said arm 113 is released. The tilting carrier arms 125, now turn down to the position denoted by dotted lines in Fig. 19 carrying the cigar down so that it will be in register with the holder across which the band lies. The pusher 132 next moves forward with the rack-bar 133 and moves the cigar, loosely held by the tilting carrier arms 125 and the co-operating springs 127, into the holder, and the movable jaw 29 of a bell-crank lever 29 is then closed against the cigar by the action of a spring 31, as permitted by the cam 34:. When the cigar is forced forward into the holder the band lying across the holder is pushed inward by the cigar so as to be partly around the cigar, but with the ends of the band extending outward. The folder 143 now descends, moving inward as it does so, thus bending the upper end of the band inward towards the cigar, and the tucker plate 144 then moves inward and tucks said end under the cigar. The next forward movement of the carrier wheel 27 carries the cigar downward along the yielding presser-plate 145 which presses the lower end of the band inward against the moistened gummed end of the band, as the cigar is advanced, thus fully wrapping the band around the cigar. The cigar has now arrived at what may be termed the fourth station, where the heated drier 159 is lo cated, and said drier is now momentarily presesd against the band to dry the same and complete the sealing of the band around the cigar. The next forward movement of the carrier wheel 27 carries the cigar, with the band sealed around the same, to the fifth or discharging station at the lower side of the said carrier wheel, and as the movable jaw of the holder will now have been opened by the action of the cam 34, the cigar will be released from the holder. The ejector or discharging device, comprising the carriage 164 and the arms 163, now moves forward and the hooks 171 on said arms will engage the cigar on opposite sides of the wheel 27 and draw it forward onto the table .2 and beneath the spring plates 172 lightly pressing on the cigar to keep it from rolling or turning over. As the cigars will each be given a quarter turn of 90 in one direction by the tilting carrier 125, and will be given a quarter turn of 90 in the opposite direction, when moving from the third or feeding-in station, where said tilting carrier is located, to the fifth or discharging station, the cigars will be discharged onto the table .2, with their same sides uppermost as were uppermost when the cigars were on the table ac and between the feeding belts 83 and 84 which, as hereinbefore stated, move in unison so as to carry the cigars forward without turning them over or rolling them.

When the pushing member 132 moves for ward to force a cigar from the down-turned tilting carrier arms 125 into a cigar holder on the carrier wheel 27 a laterally extending hook or projjection 132 on said pushing member engages the arm 113 forcing said arm forward and thus lifting the cigar supporting fingers 110 in readiness to receive the cigar next fed forward'by the intermittingly moving feeding belts 83 and 84, this movement of the arm 113 permitting the arm 111 and the roll 112 carried thereby to drop to their normal positions.

From the foregoing it will be understood that an entire box layer of cigars, manually placed between the feeding belts 83 and 84, will be automatically fed to the intermittingly rotating carrier wheel 27 and will be automatically banded, and will then be discharged with their same sides uppermost as were uppermost when the cigars were between said feeding belts. Thus the machine may be run more rapidly than banding machines now in use and to which the cigars have to be fed one at a time by the attendant, and the cigars will come from the banding machine with their proper sides up in readiness to be quickly packed in the boxes. Y

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a cigar banding machine, a rotary carrier provided with a series of cigar holders each comprising a stationary jaw and a movable spring-pressed jaw, combined with a band nipper for each of said holders, said band nipper comprising a spring-pressed lever co-operating with one of said jaws, and means for operating said spring-pressed jaw and lever in opposition to the stress of their closing springs.

2. In a cigar banding machine, a rotary carrier providedwith a series of cigar holders each comprising a stationary jaw and a movable spring-pressed jaw, combined with a band nipper for each of said holders, said band nipper comprising a spring-pressed lever co-operating with one of said jaws, and means for operating said spring-pressed jaw and lever in opposition to the stress of their closing springs, said means consisting of rocking cams, and members engaging said cams and acting on said movable spring-pressed jaw and lever.

3. In a cigarbanding machine, the combination with a rotary carrier and cigar holders and band nippers mounted on said carrier, of a band-holding magazine having a partly open bottom, a vibrating suction arm, and a rock-shaft by which said arm is carried, said suction arm serving to remove the bands from said magazine, one by one, and present them to said nippers.

a. In a cigar-banding machine, the combination with a rotary carrier and cigar holders and band nippers mounted on said carrier, of a band-holding magazine having a partly open bottom, a vibrating suction arm located beneath said magazine and servhis to remove the bands from said magazine, one by one, and present them to said nippers, and an exhaust air pump operativelv connected with said suction arm.

5. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with a rotary cigar carrier and means for wrapping gummed bands about cigars, of a moistening device for the summed bands, and a vibrating heated drier which is impressed against the bands when closed about the cigars, said drier being mounted outside of but closely adjacent to the periphery of said carrier.

6. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with a rotary cigar carrier and leans for intermittingly rotating the same, of means for wrapping summed bands around the cigars, a heated drier for drythe bands before they are discharged from said carrier, said drier being mounted outside of but adjacent to the periphery of said carrier, and means for moving said drier from and towards said carrier.

7. In a cigar banding machine, the com bination with means for wrapping gummed bands around the cigars and for holding the cigars while the bands are being wrapped around them, of a vibrating heated drier movable towards and from the banded cigars, and means for holding the heated drier against the hands on the cigars for periods of time sufiicient to seal the gummed bands which encircle the cigars.

8. The combination with an intermittingrly rotating cigar carrier provided with a series of cigar holders and a series of hand holding nippers, of means for presenting gummed bands to said nippers, means for wrapping the bands around the cigars. a heated drier for drying the bands, when wrapped around the cigars, before the cigars are discharged from said carrier, said drier being mounted outside of but adjacent to the periphery of said carrier, and means for moving said drier from and toward said carrier.

9. In a cigar banding machine, a rotary cigar carrier provided with a series of cigar and band-holding devices each comprising a stationary cigar-holdin jaw, a movable snringr-closed cigar-holding jaw co-operating n th said. stationary jaw, and a movable spring-closed bandholding jaw co-operatinc with and pressing against said movable ciganholding jaw.

L0. in igar banding machine, a rotary cigar carrier provided with a series of cigar and banddiolding devices each comprising a stationary ciganholding jaw, movable spring-closed cigar-holding jaw cobperating with said stationary jaw, and a movable spring-closed hand holding jaw co-operatingz; with and pressing against said movable cigar-holding; jaw, combined with means for intermittingly rotating: said carrier, means for presenting previously gummed "bands to said carrier, means for wrapping; the bands, presented to said carrier, about the cigars, means for moistening the gummed bands, and heated pressure means for drying the hands when wrapped around the cigars, before the cigars are discharged from said carrier.

11. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily support ing each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, and a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger.

12. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the. forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, and means for imparting a quarter turning; movement to said tilting carrier.

13. In a Bilge? banding; machine, the combination with an intermitt' ly rotatingcigar carrier having series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars. two intermittingiy travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each ciear when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus tcmporariiy supported, a tilting, carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunge-r,

and a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier.

1%. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an interini tin jly rotating cigar carrier having series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrap ping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a re ciprocating plunger arranged to acton the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, and a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier.

15. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and be tween which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a re ciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, and a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars.

16. In a cigar banding machine, the com bination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrap ping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, areciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders 0': said rotating carrier, and a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier with out turning the cigars.

17. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rota-ting cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts to advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced be yond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without tliirning the cigars, and means for holding the cigars from turning after they discharged from said carrier.

18. In a cigar banding machine, the combin ation with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittinglv travelling feeding (belt-s for advancin, the cigars towards said carrier and be tween which bolts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier he cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, a reciprocating pusher for removin the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars, and means for holding the cigars from turning after they are discharged from said carrier.

19. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed. means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a re ciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilt ing carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, and heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands while the cigars are still retained in said holders.

20. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and Wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a re ciproca'ting plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, and heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands While the cigars are still retained in said holders.

2].. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holdare, oi means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, a reciprocating pusher for re moving the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands while the cigars are still retained in said holders, and a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars.

22. In a cigar banding machine, the combination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and be tween which belts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily sup-porting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tiltin carrier adapted to receive the cigars an into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and placing them in the holders of said rotating carrier, heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands while the cigars are still retained in said holders, and a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars.

23. In a cigar banding machine, the com bination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar holders, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermitt-inglv travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which helts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced beyond the forward ends of said belts, a reciprocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, a reciprocating pusher for re moving the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars, heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands while the cigars are still retained in said holders, and means for holding the cigars from turning after they are discharged from said carrier.

24:. In a cigar banding machine, the com-- bination with an intermittingly rotating cigar carrier having a series of cigar bold are, of means for feeding bands and wrapping them around the cigars, two intermittingly travelling feeding belts for advancing the cigars towards said carrier and between which helts the cigars are placed, means, beyond said belts, for temporarily supporting each cigar when advanced be yond the forward ends of said belts, a recip rocating plunger arranged to act on the cigars thus temporarily supported, a tilting carrier adapted to receive the cigars and into which carrier the cigars are forced by said plunger, means for imparting a quarter turning movement to said tilting carrier, a reciprocating pusher for removing the cigars from said tilting carrier and plate ing them in the holders of said rotating car rier, heated means for drying and thus finally sealing the bands while the cigars are still retained in said holders, a discharging device for removing the cigars from said carrier without turning the cigars, and means for holding the cigars from turning after they are discharged from said carrier.

In testimony whereof I affix my si nature.

rrnaononn s. Median. 

